Momentum-Like Effects

(last update: July 31, 2017)

Memory for the final location of a moving target is usually displaced in the direction of anticipated future target motion, and this mislocalization has been referred to as representational momentum. Reviews of the empirical literature on representational momentum can be found in Hubbard (2005, 2014).

Representational momentum has recently been linked to a variety of other momentum-like effects, and these include operational momentum, attentional momentum, behavioral momentum, and psychological momentum. Operational momentum and attentional momentum are reviewed by Hubbard (2014) in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and behavioral momentum and psychological momentum are reviewed by Hubbard (2015) in Journal of Mind and Behavior. A comparison of all of five types of momentum-like effects can be found in Hubbard (2015) in Psychological Bulletin.

Previous versions of this page were entitled "Representation Momentum Bibiliography," but the listings have been expanded to include all five types of momentum-like effects.

de sá Teixeira, N. A., de Oliveira, A. M., & Viegas, R. (2008). Functional approach to the integration of kinematic and dynamic variables in causal perception: Is there a link between phenomenology and behavioral responses? Japanese Psychological Research, 50, 232-241.

Hubbard, T. L. (1999). How consequences of physical principles
influence mental representation: The environmental invariants hypothesis.
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Society for Psychophysics (pp. 274-279).

Hubbard, T. L. (2001). The effect of height in the picture plane on the forward displacement of ascending and descending targets. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 325-330.

Kelly, L., & Holloway, J. (2015). An investigation of the effectiveness of Behavioral Momentum on the acquisition and fluency outcomes of tacts in three children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 9, 182-192.

Kerzel, D., Jordan, J. S., & Müsseler, J. (2001). The role of perception in the mislocalization of the final position of a moving target. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 829-840.